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Biden: 'I've Never Found' Women in Workforce to Be 'Kinder and Gentler'
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Posted on 12/03/2013 11:28:21 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Biden: 'I've Never Found' Women in Workforce to Be 'Kinder and Gentler' Daniel Halper December 3, 2013 7:26 AM

Vice President Joe Biden says that women are not "kinder and gentler" in the work place than men.

"I've never found that to be the case," Biden told a Japanese audience. "They're as tough, they're as strong, they're as everything as a man is - and vice-versa."

Via the Associated Press:

At a roundtable later with business executives, Biden said he'd heard some say women are good in the workforce because they are kinder and gentler.

"I've never found that to be the case," Biden said to laughter. "They're as tough, they're as strong, they're as everything as a man is - and vice-versa."

The vice president is in Asia this week for an official state trip, where he's also expressed concern about China's recent activities:

Vice President Joe Biden says the U.S. is deeply concerned about China's attempt to unilaterally change the status quo in the East China Sea.

Biden says China's declaration of a new air defense zone has raised regional tensions and increased the risk of accidents and miscalculation.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidengaffes; hillary2016; hillaryclinton; sexism
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Buffoon...............
1 posted on 12/03/2013 11:28:21 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

I just love him. Keep talking, Joe!


2 posted on 12/03/2013 11:31:06 AM PST by fullchroma
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To: Sub-Driver; Revolting cat!
Joe's an old softie.


3 posted on 12/03/2013 11:32:31 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well, he did have to work with Hillary!


4 posted on 12/03/2013 11:35:31 AM PST by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: Sub-Driver
What workforce have you ever been in, Joey?

Aren't you a career government bureaucrap?

5 posted on 12/03/2013 11:38:57 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Actually....I agree with him, for once. The women I’ve worked with were as varied as the men, but I wouldn’t say they were particularly “kinder and gentler.”


6 posted on 12/03/2013 11:39:59 AM PST by JoeDetweiler
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To: Sub-Driver
For once I don't find a statement from Biden to be buffoonish or just plain wrong. I'm not sure what the big (f-ing) deal is about what he said.

(It could be because I'm warming to the idea of a 1.75 year Biden presidency after Zero gets impeached & convicted…)

7 posted on 12/03/2013 11:40:54 AM PST by Yossarian
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To: Sub-Driver

Nine times out of ten I would rather a female bag my groceries instead of a male - they are definitely gentler with my groceries.


8 posted on 12/03/2013 11:42:55 AM PST by greatvikingone
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To: Sub-Driver

I once was appointed manager over a group of 14 women. The manager who hired them had quit. He selected them based on their looks.

A bunch of very pretty evil sneaky lazy incompetent women. About 1/3 could do their job.


9 posted on 12/03/2013 11:42:59 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Even for perhaps the most inept human in the mutiverse (close competition with the Obamadork), the Biden comment contains a vestige of truth.

My wife (who is orders of magnitude more intelligent than the two cretins mentioned above) has stated that women are meaner and less tolerant when in positions of power.

One can only imagine the evil which will be unleashed should the Hillabeast achieve power. Just think pure evil coupled with her small amount of intelligence. Be afraid. Be very afraid.


10 posted on 12/03/2013 11:42:59 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Sub-Driver

Biden could simply recite the date and time, and it would come off awkward.


11 posted on 12/03/2013 11:43:24 AM PST by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: fullchroma
Reminds me of an old joke from my foreman at my first job. This was back in the early 1970s before you could get hung out to dry for making a statement which even hinted at sexism.

One of the women in the company is making a Joe Bidenesque statement which ends with the declaration "I can do anything a man can do!"

The foreman turns to her and says "I'll bet you can't stand on the edge of the bathtub and pee in the toilet!"

12 posted on 12/03/2013 11:44:44 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Sub-Driver

WTF is this idiot talking about ?


13 posted on 12/03/2013 11:45:43 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

and this is going to negotiate with China over their air defense ID zone??


14 posted on 12/03/2013 11:46:53 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: GeronL
I think he's going to ask for General Chow's chicken recipe.
15 posted on 12/03/2013 11:50:39 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Sub-Driver

buffoon, yes, but his statement is not inaccurate....

(people are what they are, methinks, they are not necessarily nicer or gentler just because they are females or females in the workforce...)


16 posted on 12/03/2013 11:53:42 AM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: Sub-Driver

Well, there was nothing kind or gentle about any of the women in the Clinton or the Obama Administrations, or among the Democrat women in the House and Senate.

Reno. Hillary! Sebelius. Power. Napolitano. etc.

So the guy has a point!


17 posted on 12/03/2013 11:54:02 AM PST by Skepolitic
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To: Sub-Driver

Ok; let’s play the same mental exercise here again.

Imagine Dan Quayle said this; or GWB; or Reagan, or Palin.

The press reaction would be the same!!??


18 posted on 12/03/2013 11:56:05 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Obama lied; our healthcare died.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

lol

“This is Chairman Xi”

“Zee Who? I’m looking for that Jinping guy”


19 posted on 12/03/2013 12:01:07 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
Imagine Dan Quayle said this; or GWB; or Reagan, or Palin.

Or Mitty. BINDERS and BINDERS of kinder and gentler women ...

20 posted on 12/03/2013 12:01:07 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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